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President Obama is successfully invoking Mitt Romney’s career at Bain Capital to raise doubts about Mr. Romney’s commitment to the middle class, strategists in both parties say.
President-elect Enrique Peña Nieto began the transition to power on Monday, declaring that he would begin to name members of his cabinet, and pledging to defeat organized crime and improve the economy.
The Iranian writer Mahmoud Dowlatabadi’s book “The Colonel” has just been published in the United States even though it has not yet come out in his home country, where Mr. Dowlatabadi has been regarded as a subversive for decades.
Since President Obama swept into office with vast backing from young people, a new corps of voters have come of age with views shaped by the recession.
Seth MacFarlane’s “Ted,” a comedy about a foul-mouthed teddy bear come to life, took in an estimated $54.1 million to reach No. 1 for its opening weekend.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 27, 2012, covering July 1, 2012.
Usher
Rush
Adele
Josh Turner
Ed Sheeran
2012Peter E. Gillquist, American priest and author (born 1938)[†]
Peter Edward Gillquist was an American archpriest in the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America and retired chairman of the archdiocese's department of missions and evangelism. He was chairman of Conciliar Press and the author of numerous books, including Love Is Now, The Physical Side of Being Spiritual and Becoming Orthodox. He also served as project director of the Orthodox Study Bible and, from 1997, served as the National Chaplain of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity.
2012Ossie Hibbert, Jamaican-American keyboard player and producer (born 1950)[†]
Oswald "Ossie" Hibbert was a Jamaican organist, keyboard player and record producer.
2012Evelyn Lear, American operatic soprano (born 1926)[†]
Evelyn Shulman Lear was an American operatic soprano. Between 1959 and 1992, she appeared in more than forty operatic roles, appeared with every major opera company in the United States and won a Grammy Award in 1966. She was well known for her musical versatility, having sung all three main female roles in Der Rosenkavalier. Lear was also known for her work on 20th century pieces by Robert Ward, Alban Berg, Marvin David Levy, Rudolf Kelterborn and Giselher Klebe. She was married to the American bass-baritone Thomas Stewart until his death in 2006.
2012Alan G. Poindexter, American captain, pilot and astronaut (born 1961)[†]
Alan Goodwin "Dex" Poindexter was an American naval officer and a NASA astronaut. Poindexter was selected in the 1998 NASA Group (G17) and went into orbit aboard Space Shuttle missions STS-122 and STS-131.
2012Jack Richardson, American author and playwright (born 1934)[†]
Jack Carter Richardson was an American writer born in Manhattan, and his birthplace erroneously has been reported as Bristol, Virginia. He was known for his existentialist dramas of the early 1960s.
In 2012, the world population was approximately 7,201,202,485 people[†]